Two-step multipolling MAC protocol for wireless LANs

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1276-1286

  Kim, Byung Seo ^a   Kim, Sung Won ^b   Fang, Yuguang ^c   Wong, Tan F ^c  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Multipolling (MP); Point coordination function (PCF); Rate adaptive medium access control (MAC); Wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MULTIPOLLING (MP); POINT COORDINATION FUNCTION (PCF); RATE-ADAPTIVE MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 20944432344     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2005.845635     Document Type: Article

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